EWCs

Yesterday, the EPSU Executive Committee received a report about the negotiations between the Special Negotiating Body and the French multinational company ORPEA.

On November 26, workers in the French multinational electric utility companies ENGIE and EDF are mobilising to defend the future of their jobs, the public energy sector and to demand the suspension of the companies’ current restructuring projects.

Trade unionists from across the global operations of Fresenius, the German health giant, met online 28 October.

In March 2020, the European Trade Union Federations [ETUFs] published joint guidelines for EWC, SNB and SE Works Council members and coordinators on how these bodies should operate during and deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

Press Release ( EN/FR ) - The management of the ORPEA group, Europe’s largest multinational company providing elderly and other forms of care, continues to ignore public health measures put in place by the Fench government to protect citizens’ lives.

Management of two French-based multinational environmental services companies, Suez and Veolia, are currently locked in a battle over leadership in the sector.

Time is running out: Concrete and rapid actions needed to enforce rights to worker involvement in anticipating and managing the COVID-19 crisis impact.

During this unprecedented global crisis, trade unions from all over Europe are acting united to ensure COVID-19 does not put jobs and incomes in jeopardy!

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented, but must not jeopardise jobs and incomes.

By 2030, it is estimated that 500,000 care home beds will be needed in the EU to accommodate the boom in the aging population.

On 2 October, EPSU held its biannual Standing Committee (SC) on Utilities which drew together EPSU affiliates from across the continent, including representatives from Russia.

Europe’s people want quality services for the young, the disabled, the elderly and all in need of care.

The German worldwide operating multinational health company Fresenius is not respecting trade union and workers’ rights in all its operations.

EPSU, together with IndustriAll Europe and the unions represented in the company, and Bertrand CAMUS, CEO of SUEZ signed the renewal of the agreement on gender equality at work.

The German company Fresenius active across the global in care, renal dialysis and medical products is quickly building a reputation of a company that does not respect its workers.